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I'm often fed up with reading their hundred-page grammars and vocabularies. People making them often forget the fact that someone can be interested in learning them! I ask sometimes people about it and they just tell me they don't care about making people learn it.
I was re-reading this and something about this statement bothers me. It feels just like the arguements that non-conlangers give against conlanging "Why would you create something that isn't useful? Isn't that a waste of time?" This is why we split into two camps. Auxlangers see language as something that should be useful, while artlangers see it as something that is what it is. It's not supposed to be anything but what the creator intends. I mean afterall, if we were to say all art had to be useful, we'd have nothing but realism. I also missed that last line in my original response. No, I *don't* care about "making" people learn my languages. Why would i? I'm so fickle about them that I'm STILL settling on a few sounds in Montreiano (trying not to ruin what's already out there). Why should I make someone learn what I create? I ain't their momma!